generation

A coming into being.

The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.

All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.

A stage of technological development or innovation.

“the third generation of computers”

Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.

The normal time between successive generations.

“they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade”

The production of heat or electricity.

“dams were built for the generation of electricity”